Europe Isn't Jumping NATO Ship

Updated Feb. 15, 2000 12:15 a.m. ET

In response to your Jan. 31 editorial "Europe's Defense Ambitions ":

Neither Britain nor other Europeans have signed up to "a separate European force structure" or a "European defense project outside NATO." British and other European forces are already available for NATO, European and national operations. That will not change. What has changed after Kosovo is the will to make those forces more effective...